{"id":566,"date":"2010-05-11T16:47:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T21:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=566"},"modified":"2010-05-11T16:47:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T21:47:16","slug":"okay-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=566","title":{"rendered":"Okay then"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m coming to the conclusion that there is no possible way to accomplish everything that I need to do. I thought I might get to take a couple days off in late April or early May, but if I do that then I won’t have enough vacation hours to manage later days that I’m already committed to. But if I don’t take time off, then I’m afraid I won’t be able to finish the things I need to meet those time-sensitive commitments. I’m reasonably on top of things at work; it’s purely a vacation hours problem. <\/p>\n

The weather isn’t helping – it’s cold and wet out, and I just want to snuggle on the couch with the cat instead of accomplishing things. <\/p>\n

\"frost\"<\/p>\n

Cold, see? That was yesterday. Today has been colder – it’s 39F right now – but was overcast and frost didn’t settle.<\/p>\n

Despite the weather, things continue to develop in the garden. <\/p>\n

\"centaurea\"<\/p>\n

That’s a perennial coneflower (Centaurea montana<\/i>). <\/p>\n

My roses didn’t overwinter well. My benign neglect might be a bit too neglectful and not sufficiently benign, but the first flower is already open.<\/p>\n

\"first<\/p>\n

And now… off into the cold rain, home to work on things for the business. I’m starting to seriously contemplate hiring a minion. Any readers both local and interested in a very part-time job playing with string?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m coming to the conclusion that there is no possible way to accomplish everything that I need to do. I thought I might get to take a couple days off in late April or early May, but if I do that then I won’t have enough vacation hours to manage later days that I’m already […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}